Rewritten surveillance law passed by Congress could give Bush more power for domestic wiretaps - The recently passed law which allows President Bush to continue wiretapping Americans’ telephone calls overseas may allow for domestic spying as well. A recently-acquired Congressional Research Service report of the controversial Protect America Act, which formally legalized communications surveillance where one party is overseas, offers nebulous language which is broadly open for interpretation
Iranian Engineers Arrested, Handcuffed, and Blindfolded by US Soldiers in Baghdad - Eight Iranians were arrested, handcuffed, and blindfolded by US soldiers in Baghdad.” The US now acknowledges that the Iranians are engineers who were in Iraq to help rebuild the local electrical system. This occurred just a couple of hours after President Bush began a speech to American veterans which included a bitter attack on Iran, accusing it of arming and training Shiite militants inside Iraq.”
CEO, Worker Wage Gap Widens - Top executives at major U.S. businesses last year made as much money in one day of work on the job as the average worker made over the entire year. Chief executive officers from the nation’s biggest businesses averaged nearly $11 million in total compensation, according to the 14th annual CEO compensation survey released jointly by the Institute for Policy Studies based in Washington and United for a Fair Economy, a national organization based in Boston. At the same time, workers at the bottom rung of the U.S. economy received the first federal minimum wage increase in a decade. But the new wage of $5.85 an hour, after being adjusted for inflation, stands 7 percent below where the minimum wage stood a decade ago. “CEO pay, over that same decade, has increased by roughly 45 percent,” the study found.
American Witnesses Barred From Inquests Into the Deaths of British Soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan - American witnesses will not be allowed to travel to the UK to attend inquests into the deaths of British soldiers serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. Earlier this year the Oxfordshire assistant deputy coroner, Andrew Walker, criticised US authorities for failing to send witnesses to the inquest into the death of Lance Corporal of Horse Matty Hull, who was killed when two American A10 jets strafed his convoy in Iraq. He described their behaviour as “appalling”.
Not a Single Officer is Found Guilty at Abu Ghraib - The acquittal of a US Army colonel on charges relating to the abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib means no officers have been found criminally guilty. The episode stained the reputation of the US military and may well have acted as a recruiting agent for insurgents. The officer, Lt-Col Steven Jordan, was found not guilty by a military jury of failing to train and supervise the soldiers under his authority at Abu Ghraib. Instead he was convicted of breaking an order not to discuss the case. He was reprimanded. [Nothing has been done to fix the "Bad Barrel" described by Dr. Zimbardo.]
Bush Administration Puts Fingers in Ears and Yells, “La, La, La … I can’t hear you.” - Late last Friday the Bush administration issued a proposed new rule for coal mining that not only sanctions the most ecologically unsound form of coal mining, but may also be adopted with disregard to public comments solicited under law. The rule “will be subject to a 60-day comment period and could be revised, although officials indicated that it was not likely to be changed substantially.” That’s right, the Bush Administration is saying they probably won’t listen to the public comments.
Tell Congress to make sure that public comments are respected by ensuring unbiased oversight of the rule change process. Click the link below to send you letter to Congress.
Voting Machine Company Wanted Havoc in the 2000 Elections in Florida to Help Sell Voting Machines - Seven voting machine company whistleblowers reveal that, despite their objections, they were forced to use poor quality paper for the punchcards to be used in Florida in 2000. They also had been instructed to deliberately misalign the chads for ballots going to Palm Beach County, FL, only (a Democratic county). Sequoia apparently purposely attempted to create havoc with Florida’s punch-cards in 2000.
Slow Internet is Costing America - In the early 1990s, Verizon and other phone companies were given $200 billion to lay out fiber-optic wire. More than 10 years later, the average speed in the United States continues to lag behind the rest of the world. And it’s costing us economically.
The following was distributed by Andy Shanks on August 27, 2007, and is published here with his permission:
“We’re ashamed that the President of the United States is from Texas,” Natalie Mains of the Dixie Chicks. What followed was a storm of protest, their blacklisting from more than 12,000 radio stations and a complete disenfranchisement by the Country Western music industry.
“I was in Chicago last week — I was in Chicago; I said, ‘Hey Obama, you might wanna su*k on one of these (holds aloft a military style rifle), ya punk.’ Obama, he’s a piece of sh*t, and I told him to su*k on my machine gun — lets hear it for him. And then I was in New York. I said ‘Hey Hillary, you might wanna ride one of these into the sunset, ya worthless bit*h.’ Now, since I’m in California, (unintelligible) Barbara Boxer — she might wanna su*k on my machine gun. Hey, Dianne Feinstein, ride one of these you worthless wh*re,” Ted Nugent, darling of the NRA, burned out rock music fans and right-wingers everywhere. See the video.
I’m waiting for the moral outage over threatening two presidential candidates and two sitting congress people with guns. Not holding my breath but waiting.
I thought the secret service was supposed to get involved in this sort of thing. Guess not, they’re too busy arresting the father of a seven year old in front of his son for telling the VP that his Iraq war policy was “reprehensible,” arresting and charging a couple for wearing anti Bush t-shirts at a Bush rally or arresting people for leaving the “Free Speech Zone” set up a few blocks from a Bush photo op.
Say you’re ashamed of Der Fuhrer – it’s jail time, but threaten Democratic candidates and sitting congress people with guns and it’s just free speech.
Ted is performing on the “Shrapnel Tour” promoting his next album, Love Grenade. What many don’t know is that like Dick Cheney, George Bush and most of Bush’s Cabinet, Teddy avoided the draft. He was a bit more creative though; when he was drafted during the Vietnam war Nugent stopped all forms of personal hygiene for a month and showed up for his draft board physical in pants caked with his own urine and feces.
I welcome any and all of the conservatives on this list to defend Ted. I will publish your comments un-edited and without comment to this list. C’mon, show your pride and support for this fine example of Conservatism.
Senator Cornyn Says That Gonzales’ Departure Was the Result of Congressional Democrats “Hounding a Good Man” - Reacting to the resignation of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, fellow Texan Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) said on Monday that the Gonzales’ departure was the result of congressional Democrats “hounding a good man. … I think it’s a sad day,” Cornyn, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said in a television interview with Fox News.
Ted Haggard’s Funny Money - Right-wing preacher who got caught in a sex scandal wants people to send money to a charity to support him. And the name and address of the man identified by Colorado’s secretary of state as “registered agent” for the charity matches the name and address of a man named Paul Huberty, who is listed online as a sex offender!
US Interior Secretary Sets Record By Not Listing a Single New Species as Threatened or Endangered During His Entire Time in Office – On Friday, August 24, we awarded the first annual Rubber Dodo Award to Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne in recognition of his one year and 90 days in office without listing a single new species as threatened or endangered. That’s a record. Kempthorne breaks the previous record, held by Ronald Reagan’s infamous Secretary of the Interior James Watt. Not known for his sympathy for wildlife or the environment, Watt went without listing a new species from 1981 through 1982, for a total of 376 days. Under Kempthorne’s direction, the Fish and Wildlife Service classifies 279 species as “candidates” for listing, because they meet the criteria for listing and are simply awaiting the agency’s formal rule. But that waiting list could turn into a “too-late” list without government action, as species in dire need of protection go extinct. I encourage you to call, write or email Secretary Kempthorne and express your opinion about his refusal to list new species.
Dept. of the Interior Phone Number: (202) 208-3100, or send an e-mail
Bill O’Reilly’s Assertion That Most Journalists Give Money to Democrats Refuted by Study - On The O’Reilly Factor, Bill O’Reilly stated: “We know that journalists — most journalists give money to Democrats.” However, the study that O’Reilly was apparently referring to showed that of the small fraction of journalists who donated money at all to campaigns, more gave to Democrats than Republicans. The study stated that the 143 journalists identified in the study as having made political contributions “are a tiny fraction of the roughly 100,000 staffers in newsrooms across the nation.” This is another example of how O’Reilly twist words to make them sound like the say something other than what was originally intended.
In September of 2006, Col. Sam Gardiner discusses U. S. covert operatives in Iran. Was this plan set up a long time ago?
War With Iran Has Started (CNN)
On January 25, 2007, Wayne White and Pat Buchanan discuss plans of President Bush and neocons to invade Iran.
Secret War Plans Against Iran Revealed (CNN)
In early February of 2007, Keith Olbermann compared what Bush said leading up to the invasion of Iraq with things he has been saying about Iran.
Is Iran the next Iraq?
Also in February of 2007, BBC summarizes the U. S. briefing on weapons from Iran that are reportedly being used in Iraq.
US Presents Evidence of Iran’s Involvment in The Death of 170 US and Coalition Soldiers
On February 25 2007, investigative journalist Seymour Hersh reviewed plan with CNN’s Wolf Blizter to destablize Iran. In his article, The Redirection, published in The New Yorker, Mr. Hersh asks, “Is the Administration’s new policy benefitting our enemies in the war on terrorism?”
US Funds Being Used to support Al Qaida affiliated groups
In March of 2007, General Wesley Clark summarized the early plan to take over the Middle East from a memo written by then Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.
Seven Countries in Five Years
Now Fox News is pimping the invasion of a Iran as it pimped the invasion of Iraq.
FOX ATTACKS – IRAN A short film by Robert Greenwald.
Republican Lobbying Firm Working to Undermine Iraqi Prime Minister – A powerhouse Republican lobbying firm with close ties to the White House has begun a public campaign to undermine the government of Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki. A senior Bush administration official told CNN the White House is aware of the lobbying campaign by Barbour Griffith & Rogers because the firm is “blasting e-mails all over town” criticizing al-Maliki and promoting the firm’s client, former interim Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi, as an alternative to al-Maliki.
Arming the World – A few weeks ago, the White House announced plans to sell $20 billion in weapons to the Saudi royal family. But to maintain balance, the US will increase aid to Israel by 25%, meaning an additional $30 billion over the next decade to them. In 1990, an oil-rich, very nice little country named Kuwait was invaded by the very not-nice Iraq. At that time, we had to weaken Saddam Hussein, who had become very powerful after purchasing weapons from the US. We had to give him the weapons, because he was at war with Iran, where the previous regime had been armed by the US with things like F-14 Tomcat jets. But once Saddam got real powerful, we had to worry that he would topple our friends in Saudi Arabia. So, we put troops in Saudi Arabia, which made Osama bin Laden mad, who had also become very powerful after the US gave wepons to him to fight the Russians in Afghanistan.
Fox News Wants the US to Attack Iran – The same images, sound effects, yelling and threatening that led the U.S. to invade Iraq is happening right now to sell a war with Iran. Will the rest of the media fall in line like they did for Iraq?
Tell the networks not to follow Fox News down the road to war. Here’s an open letter to the networks asking them not to fall in line with Fox News. Will you sign it?
FOX ATTACKS – IRAN A short film by Robert Greenwald.
Indicted Donor Poses Quandary for GOP Lawmakers Who Accepted Funds – Seven vulnerable House Republicans face difficult decisions about whether to return contributions from a major Republican donor who was charged last week on 23 counts of bankruptcy fraud, mail fraud, money laundering, obstruction of justice and perjury.
Alaska Republican Congressman’s $10M Earmark is Focus of Inquiry – A Justice Department corruption task force is investigating whether Alaska Republican Congressman Don Young took campaign cash in return for securing $10 million for construction of proposed Florida highway ramp.
Republican Administration Slashes Health Plan, Leaves Children Behind - In another not so surprising move, the Bush administration has made a decision that would limit the health care coverage of thousands of children in middle-income families. On Friday, a letter was sent by Administration officials that outline new standards, which would make it much more difficult for states, such as New York and California to extend their health care coverage.
Since Republicans Took the White House, Americans’ Average Income Has Fallen - In 2005, Americans earned on average of 1 percent less then they did in the year 2000 and according to Citizens for Tax Justice, a group that believes Republican’s policies favor the rich, pointed out that people with incomes of more than a million dollars “received 62 percent of the savings from the reduced tax rates on long-term capital gains and dividends that President Bush signed into law in 2003.” Total income listed on tax returns grew every year after World War II, with a single one-year exception, until 2001, making the five-year period of lower average incomes and four years of lower total incomes a new experience for the majority of Americans born since 1945.
Bush Administration Did Not Study Environmental Impact of Fire Retardant; Killed 20,000 Fish - The Administration’s top forestry official has been ordered to explain why the US Forest Service failed to analyze the environmental impact of dropping a fish-killing flame retardant on wildfires — or face contempt of court. Forestry Service chemicals killed more than 20,000 fish in central Oregon. Agriculture Undersecretary Mark Rey may face jail unless the Forest Service assents to a court order enjoining the environmental review.
Cheney has Warrantless Wiretapping Documents, Won’t Turn Them Over - Vice President Dick Cheney’s office has in its possession more than 50 documents related to a congressional investigation of the Bush administration’s warrantless wiretapping program, but Cheney’s lawyer on Monday refused to hand over the documents in response to a subpoena.
Neoconservative Calls for Enslaving or Killing All Mexican Immigrants and Invading Mexico - I wrote about this guy last week, when he said that George Bush should be president-for-life. Now we find that he also said, “The very least that must be done to halt the Hispanic invasion is the mass enslavement, or execution, of the invaders, which must be followed by an American invasion of Mexico to enforce American language and values upon the Mexicans.”
Electronic Voting Machines Provide Not-So-Secret Ballots - Two Ohio activists have discovered that e-voting machines made by Election Systems and Software and used across the country produce time-stamped paper trails that permit the reconstruction of an election’s results – including allowing voter names to be matched to their actual votes. Diebold’s AV-TSX touchscreen voting machine stores a time stamp showing the time which each vote was cast–down to the millisecond–along with the electronic record of that vote, so it has the same type of problem. Direct Recording Electronic touch-screen voting machines should never be allowed for use in another American election.
Amazon Forest Sold Off in Housing Scam - The Brazilian government stands accused of selling off huge swaths of the Amazon rainforest – including its oldest protected national park – to unscrupulous logging companies, under the cover of a flawed sustainable development project. The Brazilian President, Luiz Ignácio Lula da Silva, won power in 2003 with a promise to settle 400,000 homeless families during his four-year term, an unrealistic target he is accused of reaching in last-minute deals prior to last year’s election. An eight-month investigation by Greenpeace into the land scam, revealed that the Brazilian land reform agency, INCRA, had set up large settlements in rainforest areas instead of placing them in already deforested areas, and settling urban families who promptly sold logging rights to major timber companies.
Democratic Congressman Causes Airport Altercation - Rep. Bob Filner (D-CA) allegedly tried to enter a restricted area at the airport baggage claim and pushed aside an airport employee who tried to stop him, according to the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority. Several witnesses told local Washington affiliate ABC 7 news they saw Filner push the employee and refused to leave the restricted office.
Airline worker accuses Bob Filner of assault
Two Months After Giving Iraqis “Two More Months” to Shape Up, Bill O’Reilly is Silent on Their Failure to Do So - On his radio show on June 20, Bill O’Reilly asserted, “I’m gonna tell you that the big picture is, the Iraqis have two more months. They’ve got two more months. And if they don’t step up and help more than they’re helping” on oil legislation and security, “in two months, it’s over. Come September and October, we’re pulling back, and that’s the truth.” August 20 marks the end of the two-month period, but O’Reilly is yet to mention the Iraqi government’s failure to reach an agreement on oil legislation or his claims about the need for improvements by the Iraqi Security Forces.
In this twenty-second survey of the web, The WAWG Index monthly average was down by 19.2 percent from July 2007. Of the fourteen categories tracked, 13 were down and only 1 was up. The largest decrease for August, 88 percent, was for “fraudulent elections.” The only increase was for “military supremacy/avid militarism” at 17 percent.
Twelve Month Moving Average
Through August, the 12 month group moving average for all fourteen categories was down to 13.1 from 15.5 percent last month. Of the fourteen categories tracked, 5 were up and 9 were down the from the last 12 month period.
THE END OF POSSE COMITATUS:
As reported last October by Major Danby in Daily Kos, the rubber stamp 109th Congress gave President Bush the power to:
- involuntarily take National Guard troops from State A and
- require them to work in State B for up to a year,
- in law enforcement rather than just traditional areas like disaster relief,
- over the objection of both state’s governors
The Daily Kos provides more detail and background, but here are some highlights:
The Fiscal Year 2007 Defense Authorization Bill was envisioned as a bill that would strengthen the National Guard. With a sick sense of irony, the Bush Administration gutted this provision and replaced it with a “body snatcher” provision that represented “a sizable step toward weakening states’ authority over their Guard units.” The provision “mak[es] it easier for the President to declare martial law, stripping state governors of part of their authority over state National Guard units in domestic emergencies.”
So now the President can send troops from Tennessee to quash what he deems a threat to civil order in Oregon, even if the governors of Tennessee and Oregon both object.
This, by the way, is how the Chinese – whose approach to government and party building Bush seems so much to admire – broke up the protests in Tienanmen Square. They brought in troops from the provinces who knew nothing about what the protest was about, but knew that if they were ordered to shoot, they had to shoot.
Such small changes to the law. Such a huge result. Imposition of federal martial law, using state troops, over the objection of the states.
THE CHRISTIANIZED MILITARY:
Add to this, the takeover of our military by unquestioning evangelical officers and we are another step closer to a single-party state run by the Bush/Cheney/Rove/Gonzales team. As documented in a recent interview of Michael L. Weinstein on Los Angeles City Beat, LA City Beat states, “He [Weinstein] found an unconstitutional infiltration of the entire U.S. armed forces by believers of ‘dominionist Christianity,’ who reserve the right to either convert or kill anyone, including American soldiers, who doesn’t believe in what Weinstein calls a ‘weaponized Jesus Christ’ – and use your tax money to do it. ”
Here are a few excerpts of Mr. Wienstein from that interview. Where he uses the phrase dominionist Christians, just substitute right-wing authoritarian.
I’m not a Jewish leader. I’m a civil libertarian. We’re telling the military: Look, you’re going to be at least as constrained as the shift manager at McDonald’s or KFC or Starbucks. If you want to see a Fortune 500 CEO brought to his or her knees, just have the most junior person at the mailroom claim, “Hey, I’m being evangelized in the workplace.” That’s a killer lawsuit under Title 7 of the U.S. Code. But in the U.S. military, that’s not just your shift manager; that’s your military superior.
We now have 737 U.S. military installations scattered around the world as we garrison the globe in 132 countries. And in every one of them, we have this Christian Taliban. It’s the Officers Christian Fellowship for the officers, and the Christian Military Fellowship for the enlisted. And they have a tripartite goal – a goal that they view as much more critically important than merely the oath that they all swore to protect and to serve the Constitution: Number one, they want to see a “spiritually transformed military”; number two, with “ambassadors for Christ in uniform”; and number three, “empowered by the Holy Spirit.”
Our founding fathers were well aware that, in Europe, most of the tyrannies had been conducted by men of the cloth who were also men in political power, so in Clause 3 of Article 6 of the Constitution, they stuck in the phrase that we will never have a religion test for any position in the federal government. Oh, I guess except the U.S. Air force, the Marines, the Navy and the Army, which will hold a Geiger counter up to anyone on planet earth and if it says, “Oh, we think you’re unchurched,” then you better be prepared to be evangelized. There’s no difference between them and Sharia – Islamic law – or Wahabiist Islam.
There’s over 100 of the largest evangelical organizations in Colorado Springs. It’s like the Vatican. I saw the flyer for one of their brown-bag lunches. It said, “Do not take this flyer down. This is an officially sponsored Air Force Academy activity in conjunction with the Christian Leadership Ministries.” This was attended by scores of senior officers and senior civilian people. Today’s luncheon topic, and I quote: “Why we cannot let you have your God while we have ours.”
This is all part of a passion play, now. Commanders in the field are censoring the soldiers’ DVD libraries, leaving only the movies that have appropriate Christian content. Battle staff meetings are being diverted into evangelical prayer sessions. I had a Captain JAG tell me that he recently tried to stand up to the colonel to refuse this, but the colonel grabbed him by the lapels of his battledress uniform in front of all the troops, and said, “Boy, we’re here to do two things: spread the gospel of American democracy and spread the gospel of our lord Jesus Christ. And if you don’t like it, I’ll send you home now.”
AN ATTEMPTED COUP IN 1933:
If all this sounds a little far fetched, let’s look back at a possible coup attempt by the American Liberty League (ALL), composed of members of the DuPont family, as well as leaders of U.S. Steel, General Motors, Standard Oil, Chase National Bank, and Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company. Their plan was to push President Franklin Roosevelt aside and replace him with a “Secretary of General Affairs.”
In 1934, the Congressional McCormack-Dickstein Committee looked into the allegations by Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler that ALL attempted to recruit him to serve as the leader of a plot and to assume and wield power once the coup was successful. In their final report, the Congressional committee supported Butler’s allegations on the existence of the plot, but no prosecutions or further investigations followed ….
In 1964 Speaker of the House John W. McCormack referred to the plot in his speech before the Democratic convention in Atlantic City, when he warned against right-wing extremists in the Barry Goldwater camp. But he did not give any details, and only a knowledgeable handful of Americans understood the full implications of what he was talking about.
The conspiracy unquestionably inspired the novel Seven Days in May, made into a successful film, which portrayed a Fascist plot by high-placed American conspirators to capture the White House and establish a military dictatorship under the pretext of saving the nation from communism[terrorism]. Few of the millions of Americans who read the novel or saw the film suspected that it had a solid basis in fact.
It would seem time that school textbooks in America were revised to acknowledge our debt to the almost forgotten hero who thwarted the conspiracy to end democratic government in America.
If we remember Major General Smedley Darlington Butler for nothing else, we owe him an eternal debt of gratitude for spurning the chance to become dictator of the United States-and for making damned sure no one else did either.
IS ANOTHER COUP ATTEMPT IN OUR NEAR FUTURE?
Imagine now a national incident that would provide President Bush, or some future authoritarian Republican president, with the opportunity to declare an national emergency. It would be so easy now with a spineless Congress, politicized executive and righteous judiciary. Imagine any authoritarian as president with all the enabling changes in our laws, directing our own Christian military to enforce whatever he commands. Anyone who objected could be declared an “enemy combatant” and put out of the way without legal recourse. Imagine a minority of Christianists taking away all hope of the majority for a more pluralist, diverse and inclusive society. Imagine a president-for-life who spends trillions of dollars we have borrowed from other countries to rid the world of terrorists, which will, instead, grow in numbers. Image how you would feel if we let this happen. If all future elections become a fraud where only the votes of members of the Republican party are actually counted. Imagine the suspension of a national presidential election because of the next 9/11 and the beginning of the American Dictatorship to protect us from all enemies of the hijacked Republican Party.
Below I quote some of your reply followed by my concerns.
“I support the President in his efforts to strengthen domestic and international security, …”
I, like the majority of this nation, don’t support the President. We especially don’t support his approach to national and international security. We have taken away a meager excuse of a terrorist training camp in Afghanistan and replaced it with a 5 star battle field. They have learned better ways to kill our children. They have been able to recruit many more jihadists than we have killed, captured, or hidden away. They use real life experience in Iraq to understand our ways and better prepare for future attacks. They can then export and implement this experience around the world. How can we be more secure with all this growth in the terrorists work force?
“… and I believe Congress has the constitutional checks and balances appropriate to ensuring the executive branch upholds its duties.”
I believe Congress has turned its back on its duties to check and balance the executive branch. Congress has stood by and let this unitary presidency grow far past the bonds the Richard Nixon exceeded. This president has thumbed his nose at Congress with hundreds of signing statements to Congressional bills and Congress says, “yez mazte.” During the first 6 years of this presidency, Congress rubber stamped every thing the president wanted, especially if it was in the name of national security. All he has to do is mention national security and Congress roles over like a submissive bitch (as in female dog). Congress was so good at pleasing this president, he forgot, if he ever knew, how to spell veto. You say Congress is ensuring the president and his fellow war mongering neocons are upholding their duties. I think Congress has forgotten the other side of the coin – ensuring they don’t violate their duties.
“I will continue to work with my colleagues in Congress to strengthen priorities for the security of our nation, keeping your concerns in mind.”
I’m not sure what you mean by “strengthen priorities for the security of our nation.” If your priorities are only national security, I suggest you broaden your scope of thoughts and concerns. There are many national issues that are being ignored by and need the attention of Congress. Congress is spending this nation into bankruptcy and Osama bin Laden couldn’t be happier. Cutting taxes while increasing spending and making up the difference by borrowing from China and Japan will not come to a good end. Just like sub prime lending, this reckless budget management by Congress will eventually come crashing down Then there’s the continuing rise in all of our medical costs. One reason is the 50,000,000 citizens that don’t have insurance and have to use the emergency room to get an aspirin. We all pay for this cost and there has to be a better way. Then there are the citizens with employer sponsored medical coverage, who have to work until they die for fear of some major medical situation that will bankrupt them. Unlike the government, which Congress is partially responsible for, they can’t borrow to make up the difference.
May I suggest that you broaden your involvement with the voters in Texas and limit your time with those that bought a place at your table. Group thinks doesn’t serve a congressperson any better that it serves a our president.
Respectfully but seriously concerned for this nations future as a demacracy,
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